Aram Bartholl – Blog

For all the gamers out there. I really had to laugh.

Guess what will happen next … Large Hadron Collider meets Half-Life.

via Jon

Two bags full of “WoW” fonts are waiting for action. During “play08” 18.-22.9.2008 Workshops, Creative Gaming Lab and exhibition organised by Creative Gaming I ll run a workshop with school classes getting hands on paper. :-) The ‘standalone’ version of “WoW” with small fonts attached to a headband was introduced last year at Ars Electronica. -> Pics

Thanks to Martin for Laseraction!

The Image Fulgurator by Julius von Bismarck (winner of a Golden Nica) was of course my favorite piece at Ars Electronica. In addition to the groundbreaking idea he did a really good job in documenting his latest interventions for the Cyberarts show at Ars Electronica. Besides a crucifix he added to Obamas speakers desk during the Berlin speech he traveled to Beijing and manipulated the most symbolic place of official China. He projected a pigeon related to the Magritte’s painting “L’Homme au Chapeau Melon” on top of Mao’s face which was then only visible to chinese tourists with digi cams. Wow! A very good way of showing the Image Fulgurator’s power. I hope that he will release that beautiful video documentation online.

My upcoming events:

7.5.-17.5.09
“Random Screen” at Kunstfrühling/Art Spring Bremen, DE

5.12.08 – 4.1.09
“Sociial” Video Award Bremen at NMBW, Bremen, DE

14.11.08
Talk at “Media Pavillions” Symposium, Groninger Museum, NL

18.-22.10.08
“Urban Space, Time to Play.” Workshop by V2 at eARTS Shanghai, CN

26.9.08
“Chat” at Night of Science, Zurich, CH

19.9.08
“Chat” at Carre Rotondes, Luxembourg, LU

17.-20.9.08
Workshop, Creative Gaming Initiative, Potsdam, DE

5.9.-4.10.08
“FPS” at “Avatar” Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, AU

A very simple, again paper based and fun interactive project by Richard The » Gunnar Green » Frédéric Eyl » Willy Sengewald got an honary mention and was exhibited at Ars Electronica this year. It reminded me of a picture of an ‘interactive’ facade I posted a while ago.

Appeel is a virus spreading through interacting individuals. Surfaces are covered by thousands of colored stickers laid out in a grid. Peeling a sticker off leaves a white spot in the grid, hence people start individually and collectively changing its appearance. Once off the wall, the stickers ask to be stuck somewhere: people begin putting them on objects, walls, people; they collect them, they compose new images, they write messages. Slowly, the little stickers spread, appearing further away from their source and occupying space.

Prix Ars Electronica 2008, Honorary Mention Interactive Art

link www.thegreeneyl.com/appeel

"WoW" at Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul from Aram Bartholl on Vimeo.

Nathalie Boseul SHIN curator at Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea had invited me to run the WoW workshop/performance for “Digital Playground” at “Hack the City” exhibition 22.7.2008 – 24.8.2008. On vimeo now the documentation of the workshop and performance produced by the exhibition crew as it was shown in the museum.

Total Museum of Contemporary Art
www.totalmuseum.org

“Hey, beautiful girl on the bicycle. Your smile was charming … would like to see it again -> (mobile number) ” Isn’t that romantic?

It’s cool to have any kind of high end, GPS enhanced, locative mobile internet based, lost-hearts/want-to -meet-you-again social web service (plz enter examples in the comments). But as you might know I am a big fan of very classic paper based communication.

Found on the bank of the danube, Linz, AT.

“Sandbox Berlin” is one of the Second Life projects I did last year analyzing the digital space – real life relation.

Sascha who just came back from the Burning Man festival did send me this picture. A litteral sandbox where everything is build from scratch. No more questions on how Linden Lab came up with the idea of the Second Life sandbox. ;-)

Sascha’s Burning Man flickr set.
Thx for the pic!

The Palast der Republik is almost gone and the temporary Monopol museum nearly finished.

(All fresh renovated. CBS was already here, Auguststr. Berlin)